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saloop|səˈluːp|
Also 8 salob, salup, 8–9 saloup, salop.
[Altered form of salep.]
1. = salep.
1712S. Centlivre Perplexed Lovers v. i, Salup, what is that Salup? I have often seen this Fellow sauntering about Streets, and cou'd not imagine what he sold. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) VI. 125 Here's Salop brought from foreign Parts. 1727A. Hamilton Acc. E. Indies I. 125 They [in Sind] have a Fruit..called Salob... They dry it hard..and being beaten to a Powder, they dress it as Tea and Coffee are, and take it with powdered Sugar-candy. 1728[see 2]. 1747H. Glasse Cookery 120 To boil Salup. It is a hard Stone ground to Powder, and generally sold for one Shilling an Ounce. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Orchisroot, in the materia medica, is otherwise named salep, vulgarly called saloop. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 325 The Jamaica Salop... It may be used with great propriety as a stomachic. 1766Ann. Reg. 112 This powder is no other than that of sago or China salop. 1804C. Smith Conversations, etc. I. 94 The roots..of the orchis of which saloop is made. 1826Henry Elem. Chem. II. x. 266 Salop or Saloop is the farina obtained from several species of Orchis, especially the O. Mascula. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 8 Saloop (spelt also ‘salep’ and ‘salop’) was prepared, as a powder, from the root of the Orchis mascula. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. 667 Eulophia vera and E. campestris.—The tubercular roots of these species are used in India in the preparation of the nutritious substance known by the names of Salep, Salop, and Saloop.
2. A hot drink consisting of an infusion of powdered salep or (later) of sassafras, with milk and sugar, formerly sold in the streets of London in the night and early morning.
1728E. Smith Compl. Housew. 149 To make Salop. Take..Water, and let it boil..; then put in a quarter of an ounce of Salop finely powdered, and let it boil..; drink it in China Cups as Chocolate. c1759Roxb. Ball. (1890) VII. 58 Here's fine saloop, both hot and good. 1803Censor 1 Dec. 135, I was taking my pot of saloop, (for I am not so extravagant as to drink coffee). 1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Praise Chimneysw., There is a composition, the groundwork of which I have understood to be..sassafras. This wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar,..is saloop. 1840Pereira Elem. Mat. Med. 799 Sassafras tea, flavoured with milk and sugar, is sold..under the name of saloop. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 183 The vending of tea and coffee, in the streets, was little..known twenty years ago, saloop being then the beverage supplied from stalls. 1882Besant All Sorts xviii, Those now forgotten delicacies, saloop and tansy pudding.
b. attrib., as saloop-house, saloop-man, saloop-stall, etc.
1764Low Life (ed. 3) 1 The Salop-man in Fleet-Street shuts up his Gossiping Coffee-House. 1791‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsem. xvii. (1809) 136 He knock'd down and went over Alice Turner, the Saloup Woman. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 8/2 The saloop-stalls were superseded by the modern coffee-stalls. 1873Thornbury Old & New Lond. I. 69 A ‘saloop-house’, where the poor purchased a beverage made out of sassafras chips. 1889N. & Q. 7th Ser. VII. 35 Within the last twenty years saloop vendors might have been seen plying their trade in the streets of London.
3. saloop bush (see quot.).
1884Miller Plant-n., Saloop-bush, of Australia, Rhagodia hastata.
Hence saˈlopian a.2, nonce-wd.
1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Praise Chimneysw., Mr. Read, who hath time out of mind kept open a shop..for the vending of this ‘wholesome and pleasant beverage’..—the only Salopian house. |